Letters to the editor, Oct. 31

Published 7:02 pm, Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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San Francisco Giants' Sergio Romo reacts after striking out Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera in the 10th inning of Game 4 of baseball's World Series Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Detroit. The Giants won the game 4-3 to win the World Series. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) less

San Francisco Giants' Sergio Romo reacts after striking out Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera in the 10th inning of Game 4 of baseball's World Series Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, in Detroit. The Giants won the game 4-3 ... more

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Letters to the editor, Oct. 31

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The sweeping victory for our beloved San Francisco Giants was marred by a few idiots who acted out as only idiots know how.

Setting fires, flipping cars and throwing bottles is an embarrassment to our community and something I never thought I'd never see in these parts.

Let's make it clear: These punks are not real Giants fans. The San Francisco Giants showed class, heart and true teamwork and came out big winners because of it.

May those who used the celebration to cause mindless damage learn something from them. I hope the parade is as peaceful and joyous as 2010. Let's go, Giants!

No vandalism

Re: The Chronicle's photos of the celebration on Monday, could someone please let me know what part of celebrating the Giants' win is enhanced by vandalizing someone's car?

I have celebrated lots of things in life: World Series wins, Super Bowl wins, friends getting married, babies born, birthdays and graduations. I even cheered a little bit when I read the obituary of a former boss who was a real jerk. But at none of these times did I think that vandalizing a car or breaking a business' window would make the celebration better.

Not real fans

To you fans who have used our Giants' glory to excuse your breaking of windows, flipping private cars and burning a bus ... go away. Go to Los Angeles and join those who sucker-punch visiting fans; go to Detroit, where they burn down the town when they do win a Series; just go somewhere - somewhere else. Take off those shirts. Remove those Giants and S.F. logos and go away. You are not Giants fans.

Working together

What the Giants demonstrate in the most positive way is that there is power and accomplishment in working together. Individual players have transcended the form of the sport and produced moving art.

The Olympic Games originally combined sports and poets. The team proves that no one of us is as important as all of us working together. Under the diversity of the players is a powerful, clear display of the underlying unity.

It knows how

I clearly remember the grief that beset me when Willie McCovey hit a line drive that was caught by Bobby Richardson, ending the seventh game of the 1962 World Series.

That grief never went away until, on my 70th birthday, the Giants won the World Series. And now, a mere two years later, they've won again!

The city of San Francisco was wise to set up the huge screen in Civic Center for the fans who couldn't be in Detroit, and what a party it must have been - citizens rejoicing together. I wish I could have been there. It made me think that perhaps San Francisco will once again be worthy of the phrase "the city that knows how."

Susan Bright Winn,

Ashland, Oregon

Halloween - no costumes?

Please allow me to illuminate Caille Millner on Halloween, for as she said, she "missed the memo" and has questions ("The adult playland known as Halloween," Oct. 27).

I, too, grew up in the Bay Area and lived in other parts of the world, where costumes are enjoyed for festivals and holidays. I do not remember putting costumes away as a teen, nor while in college going to costume parties in the dorm or fraternity and sorority houses. Then, as a young working adult, I enjoyed the "Lack of White Ball" and Exotic Erotic Ball in San Francisco. As a mature adult, I delight in the opportunity to express my creativity at this time of year by indulging in fantasy.

Apparently Caille has never experienced nor seen photos of the 50,000 plus revelers at Burning Man nor the 100,000 plus revelers in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, where costumes prevail. In short, to answer some of Ms. Millner's questions: Who determined that Halloween was a children's holiday, and what makes her think that one must be marginalized or oppressed to express oneself creatively? It might be time for her to step away from her laptop and go out and lose a little of her high-brow inhibitions and dump the candy - it's bad for her teeth and clearly bad for her soul.

I honestly think that Obama-haters like the author of "How could you endorse Obama? (Oct. 29) have lost their ability to think clearly.

Was President Obama a huge mistake when he killed bin Laden, saved the auto industry, passed sweeping health care reform, ended "don't ask, don't tell," enacted tougher regulation of runaway banks, supported equal pay for women and the Dream Act, and favored marriage equality, not to mention all the other good things he's done? Honestly, Karl Rove could have written that letter.

Obama-haters have been drinking the Kool-Aid the Republicans have been serving them for four years, and they don't even know they've been lied to.

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